Memphis wrote:Never prolly. What with the left going so far left, it's becoming synonomous with third-wave feminism and other SJW antics that want to restrict all freedom of speech and label everyone racists, sexists and homo/transphobic, simply for being white/male/not a tranny, employing double-think, newspeak, disruption, no-platforming, virtue signalling and any other tyrannical force at hand, like it's nineteen eighty cunting four and all ends justify any means. Meanwhile they act as apologists for Islam, rape brigades and making everyone so terrified of being labelled by the social justice stasi, that folks get caught out trying to outright avoid any talk about the negative sides of immigration, clashing cultures, or religions so mired in dark age thinking, that it has the clits cut from pre-pubescent girls. The effect? More moving to the right. Lol.
I was inspired by the current election cycle, so a few weeks ago I re-read 1984, and I just finished re-reading Brave New World over the weekend. I used to be concerned that the world was moving toward the dystopia Huxley warned about, but it's become clear that Orwell was way more on the mark. So much so, that I feel like 1984 is being used as a sort of playbook by the political elite. The government has a constant need for an "other" to be at war with, for example. And the social caste has never been more stark, although I don't know where the proles end and the Outer Party begins. And the government is obsessed with re-labeling things with language that's more benign, or altogether non-descriptive, in an effort to obfuscate or ameliorate peoples' legitimate concerns.
I don't think the left is moving more to the left, I just think the vocal minority is getting more attention than they deserve. Social media has given everyone a bullhorn, and millenials who had helicopter parents and don't know how to deal with the real world are finally out on their own, asserting their entitlement to whoever will listen. Colleges and Universities cow to them out of fear of social reprisal, as ridiculous as some complaints may be. Give it time and the pendulum will swing back closer to the middle.
I'm not a libertarian by any stretch of the imagination, but this guy has a few good points. Maybe I dismissed the party a little too soon...
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[quote="YourGrandpa"]I'm satisfied with voicing my opinion and moving on.[/quote]